Some hospital registered dietitians defended giving out junk food in their hospitals in some circumstances, and Yoni Freedhoff, MD, says that's a problem. "We've created a world where to make healthful choices you have to go out of your way to do so, sometimes far out of your way," he writes. (Weighty Matters)

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force introduced new guidelines in 2015 recommending that obese and overweight patients age 40-70 be screened for diabetes. But an analysis of more than 50,000 primary care centers revealed that about half of people with diabetes or pre-diabetes would be missed under those parameters, particularly in ethnic minorities. (PLOS Medicine)

Many food companies are using QR codes, which can be scanned with a smartphone, to provide details about their products instead of listing them on the packaging itself. (Quartz)

A beleaguered diabetes researcher -- who has previously sued the American Diabetes Association to remove "expressions of concern" from his papers -- just had his seventh publication retracted, from the journal PLOS ONE. (Retraction Watch)

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